Developer Calle Wilund has released a free multitimbral sampler for Windows, TX16Wx:
After several years of on/off development, I finally got my act together (somewhat) during July of 2011 and fixed the few remaining features I wanted to add before publishing the plugin. The result is the first public beta release of the TX16Wx VSTi Software Sampler.
It is a 100% free VSTi Sampler with professional features and an easy to use graphical interface – and – one of the few sampler instruments, free or commercial, with a fully documented file format.
Not a preset-player or disk-streaming library engine, this is a plugin for you to make your own sounds, tweak and experiment. Bring back the fun of the old hardware samplers – in software.
Details below. You can download the free software sampler at Wilund’s site.
Note: The software is being released as a beta.
Features:
- Unlimited multi-timbral operation
- 128 voice polyphony
- 16 modulation slots per voice
- 24dB resonant filter
- Two LFO + Two modulation envelopes per voice
- Polyphonic glide
- Built-in sample editor
- Actually samples! Record waves straight into the sampler.
- Graphical keyboard mapping editor
- 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs
- 16 mappable controllers for automation
- Multiple loop definitions per wave
- Individual outs for keyboard groups (drums)
- Multiple keyboard scales
- Multiple trigger modes
- Mono/Poly/Legato operation
- Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading
- WAV/AIFF/AIFC/SoundFont 2 support
- Reads Typhoon compressed AIF files
- 100% documented XML-based sound file format. Anyone can write conversion tools.
- Low CPU usage
- Fully native, optimized for SSE2.
- 64-bit support
- Nice sound!
Downloads for Windows x86 and x64 are available.
Not to be that guy, but would love an iOS port 😀
Your software looks great, although I would not part with my Akais. Eight separate outs, perfect for seperate channels of mixing. I think it's funny that you can buy a hardware akai sampler second hand for a 100 quid. They are great!!
Real samplers needs to have access to the file system, which is sadly being denied by Apple.
IMO, "real" samplers need to actually sample; something that today's "library loaders" fail to understand.
Plus, I'd much rather have SampleWiz than my old Ensoniq Mirage (though, I miss her 8-bit grime and analog filter) or Yamaha SU-10. I agree that an open file system would be quite welcome in iOS but I don't think that should stop developers.
Wow, I can't wait to try this! Looks really feature-rich while having a nice GUI.
Seems like a lot of people have good things to say about SampleWiz.
Can it do fairly deep sample mangling?
It looks pretty goofy and I have yet to see any demos that go beyond basic sampling.
Ur telling me the last Samplewiz demo JR did was basic! Man I would love to hear what you can do with a sampler then 😉
I have found that the basic AUSampler in GB is fairly powerful. Just have to take a minute to figure it out. It's a pretty basic sampler but it can map almost any file to key range and gives you some pretty strong mappable controls for normal synth params (reso,mod,cutoff) might take a minute to explore it if you are wanting to play with a great sampler that you might not know you had!
Beautifull…Thank you so much!!!
My first sampler was Yamaha TX-16W long, long, long time ago. It's nice to see it still has offspring 🙂
This thing is a beastmachine!
Gah, SSE (2!) required! Too bad. This one looks really promising.
Maybe I ought to upgrade.
… Nah, it's only been 10 years after all.
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